Eye-shield spectacles.



F. WILLSON & N. BOURQUIN. BYE SHIELD SPEGTAOLES.

uruomron FILED Nov. 28. 1911.

1,021,175 Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK WILLSON AND NUMA BOURQUIN, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGN- ORS TO '1. A. WILLSON 8c 00., INCORPORATED, OF READING. PENNSYLVANIA, A COB- PORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

EYE-SHIELD SPECTACLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 28, 1911.

Patented Mar.26, 1912.

Serial No. 662,897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK WILLSON and NUMA BoUR Um, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the cit of Reading, in the county of Berks and L tate of Pennsiyulvania, have invented certain new.

1 Imp rovided in connection with the lenses to. etter adapt the same for automobile use or similar purposes; and it consists in applying suc'h shields-to spectacles having frames ofordinary construction, so as to provide a simple, neat and effective device as .fully described in connection 'with the accompanying drawings; the novel features being specifically pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Figure 1 is afront view of spectacles 'embodying our invention, one of the shields being representedas in operative position and the other. as folded against the lens with the temple. Fig.2 is a plan view corresponding with Fig.- 1. Fig. 3' is an enlarged sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 shows'one of the eye shields complete, detached from its lens.

The lenses 2, 2 are larger than ordinary,

but may beada ted tothe eyes-of the wearer as'usual; and they are mounted,- in aframe. of ordinary construction comprising the inclosingeye-wires 3, 3, a connection 4 corresponding' with the usual nose piece, temple joints 5,15 rigid with the eye-wires, and PIV- oted temples. f5, 6;' the eye-wiresbeing'of the usual grooved. or l-shaped cross-section to engage the beveled-edge of .the lens. In our im roved'construction these eye-wires 'difi'er min the ordinary in beihg made sli htlynlarger than'is necessary to snugly inc ose the? lenses.

'Each' eye shield 10 is formed of a flexible, material, such as leather or -a suitable tex tile fabric, of approximately triangular She e, with a sheet-metal strip 11 attached to't e' straight edge 12 thereof, as shown, by a series of rivets 13 or other suitable means. This strip'll is curved lengthwise to correspond with the p'eripher of the lens and is of greaterwid than t e' thickness of the latter ;-.an dit is formed with. a lengthwise interiorgroove 14; adjacent one edge thereof which is'adaptedrto engage the beveled rim of the lens. In'asselnb ing the parts one of these strips is inserted between each eye-- 'wire 3 and the adjacent edge of the lens, at

the outer side. of the latter and extending somewhat less .than'haIf-wa around the same as shown." The inwar projecting corner portion 15 of each shiel engages the temple 6 so as to cause t e shield adjoinin %led with the latter against the lens to be fol I as indicated: to the right of F ig.1,. or o, .ened

therewith "as indicated to the left 0 said i} ure; such engagement being preferably --e eoted :by providing the shield with a corner perforation 16 through whichthe temple is loosely'passed.

It will be understood that the shields 10, 1-0 are adapted to serve as effective side closures when. opened, without unnecessarily detracting from the a pearance of the wearer,- and that when olded. against the inner faces of the lensesthere is no undue .bul'kiness; while atthe same time the construction is simplified and'cost economized by-enabling the employment of the ordinary "framing material and structure.

What we claim is:-

1. A pair of framed eye lenses having flexible eye-shields clamped between the frame-eyes and the outside edges of the respectiyelenses.

2.14; pair of framed eye lenses having sheet-metal eye-shield strips clam ed --between-the frame-e es and the outside edges of therespective enses, and eye-shields of flexible material attached to said strips.

3. Framed spectacles provided with flexible eye-shields of approximately triangular shape, each of said shields being clamped along one edge thereof between a frameeye and the outside edge of a lens and having an inwardly extending corner portion engaging a temple wire. 

